Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a charitable standpoint, I am inclined to the belief that you have been "sold a bill of goods" by the alien Australian...
...very anxious to know . . ." sarcastically murmured Senator McNary, [whether] we are to follow the leadership of the Senator from Wisconsin. . . . I have felt since the capitulation [on the Court Bill], under the management of our able Vice President that we would probably adjourn ... by the fifth of August. ... I doubt that he [Senator La Follette] spoke the voice of the President...
Obviously this Churchill amendment slewed the Government bill so far around as almost to reverse the Prime Minister's intentions and all his Palestine strategy. So many M. P.s leaped from their seats to vote Churchillwise that an official count would have gravely embarrassed Chamberlainians, and the Speaker hastily declared the amendment adopted without a vote. Generally in Jewish and Arab circles this putting of Palestine partition on ice until the League of Nations Council can get around to it next autumn was greeted "with relief...
...Noble Kizer, Purdue University athletic director and head football coach, of nephritis, in La Fayette, Ind.; New York Timesman Walter Duranty, after an abdominal operation, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Edgar Watson ("Ed") Howe, 84, famed onetime publisher of the Atchison (Kans.) Globe, of overwork, in Atchison; Bill Owens, captain of the New York Giants professional football team, after an auto collision, in Kingsley, Kans...
...dark bog of protective committees and corporate reorganizations, the Securities & Exchange Commission took a long look at the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, the quasi-public body whose duty it is to salvage something for the luckless owners of foreign dollar bonds. On the whole the Council received a clean bill of health from SEC. But the SECommissioners are perfectionists at heart, and in their report to Congress last May they had several suggestions to make...